Our farm is going to start waking up after Easter (all the staff returning etc) and wanting to put some spring thoughts down that I assume would resonate with the group.
No rockstar in selling grain so i had planned on carrying over cnl, was not selling under $13. This past week was able to let some go in the mid $14s.. i can live with that and still have some left to sell but hopefully I won’t have to build any bins for 24 crop. Ive noticed the crush is getting full and widening out their basis. My guess the next pop in futures will push cnl towards the line companies. Didn’t hit the highs but did as good as the pp with a weekly newsletter, might try Trent’s report for a year.
All our cereals are cleaned and made a change to our cropping plans to add some oats to the rotation (like many others), but the chance of $5 oats or $4.70 fd barley had a guy changing a few acres. Going to do a few more peas.
It’s nice to see some variable inputs come, glyfos, liberty, fuel (1.11/L), urea NOT phos wow, and a few others. Still not enough to offset the drop in revenue though.
I hear people complaining out scic, I’m on the fence with the new premium scheme as I haven’t used it a whole bunch and I’m in/out of it. For the areas that have collected in 4/5 years I’m guessing it’s starting to suck like agristability. At least the insured crop prices were high enough to keep the lights on and the price of land increasing - Kevin hursh says +8.2% in west central. Side note I’m tired of hearing how rich farmers are with land appreciating. Yea it’s helped but until you go and sell it, it hasn’t changed my lifestyle.
The market for labour is tight! I’ve never seen so many add on FB of people searching for people. I think if you have a heartbeat and a 1A you would be in the $27-32/hr range starting out. I see people willing to give $500 signing bonus, pay for their 1a course, blending of house/meals/vehicles.. farms are getting creative and they are still searching. I feel lucky to have a good group but they will all expire in the next five years.
No snow and dry, we’ve started with good moisture profiles the last couple years that has given us good crops. Our ground is dry and it didn’t get the 2’ of snow cover it needed to recharge the system. We will be banking on some rains or being surprised at harvest with how good our crops did with so little moisture.
Have been enjoying team Holman in the women’s world curling championship.
Just a few thoughts on a Sunday morning. This site has been quiet lately and I’ll attribute that to people being away on holidays and a little down on crop prices. April is here asap, good luck for 24
No rockstar in selling grain so i had planned on carrying over cnl, was not selling under $13. This past week was able to let some go in the mid $14s.. i can live with that and still have some left to sell but hopefully I won’t have to build any bins for 24 crop. Ive noticed the crush is getting full and widening out their basis. My guess the next pop in futures will push cnl towards the line companies. Didn’t hit the highs but did as good as the pp with a weekly newsletter, might try Trent’s report for a year.
All our cereals are cleaned and made a change to our cropping plans to add some oats to the rotation (like many others), but the chance of $5 oats or $4.70 fd barley had a guy changing a few acres. Going to do a few more peas.
It’s nice to see some variable inputs come, glyfos, liberty, fuel (1.11/L), urea NOT phos wow, and a few others. Still not enough to offset the drop in revenue though.
I hear people complaining out scic, I’m on the fence with the new premium scheme as I haven’t used it a whole bunch and I’m in/out of it. For the areas that have collected in 4/5 years I’m guessing it’s starting to suck like agristability. At least the insured crop prices were high enough to keep the lights on and the price of land increasing - Kevin hursh says +8.2% in west central. Side note I’m tired of hearing how rich farmers are with land appreciating. Yea it’s helped but until you go and sell it, it hasn’t changed my lifestyle.
The market for labour is tight! I’ve never seen so many add on FB of people searching for people. I think if you have a heartbeat and a 1A you would be in the $27-32/hr range starting out. I see people willing to give $500 signing bonus, pay for their 1a course, blending of house/meals/vehicles.. farms are getting creative and they are still searching. I feel lucky to have a good group but they will all expire in the next five years.
No snow and dry, we’ve started with good moisture profiles the last couple years that has given us good crops. Our ground is dry and it didn’t get the 2’ of snow cover it needed to recharge the system. We will be banking on some rains or being surprised at harvest with how good our crops did with so little moisture.
Have been enjoying team Holman in the women’s world curling championship.
Just a few thoughts on a Sunday morning. This site has been quiet lately and I’ll attribute that to people being away on holidays and a little down on crop prices. April is here asap, good luck for 24
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